Questions you can ask Maryana Ro. Masha Wei, Ivangay and others - what Russian Youtube stars were like before fame
Childhood
Maryana was born into a family of entrepreneurs with Far East. She became the second child in the family: the girl has an older brother Miroslav and a sister Maresya. When the girl was 9 years old, the Rozhkov family in full force moved to Japan, where he settled in port city Otaru, located in the southwestern part of the island of Hokkaido. 
WITH youth Maryana was raised like a little princess. Mom spared no expense on clothes for her daughter, took her to beauty salons, and did beautiful hairstyles instead of ponytails and buns. The girl realized her attractiveness early and enthusiastically posed for the camera, arousing the admiration of those around her.
Like all modern teenagers, she started pages on social networks, where she regularly posted photos and videos from her life. The number of subscribers to her microblog grew rapidly, and already at the age of 13 Maryana came up with the idea to register own channel on YouTube. Her first video was published on March 27, 2014 and was titled “How Much Do TV Shows Affect Me?”
Maryana Ro's first video
The girl didn't adhere certain topics, filmed and posted everything that came to her mind. Her video works, captivating with humor, charisma and youthful spontaneity, appealed to the youth audience. Many of Maryana’s videos were dedicated to Japanese themes, which also gave them a certain flavor. The number of subscribers to her channel increased rapidly and over a short time she has become quite a prominent person on the Internet.
Career and personal life of Maryana Ro
Maryana’s lucky ticket was meeting the popular video blogger Ivangay (Ivan Rudsky). By that time, about four million people had subscribed to his YouTube channel. They found each other on the Internet, began to communicate often on the Internet, and began to call themselves a couple. When Maryana turned 15, 18-year-old Ivan came to his beloved in Japan. To be closer to Maryana, he entered a Japanese university. 
The guys began recording joint video blogs, and the popularity of Maryana Ro’s channel skyrocketed. The girl had her first million subscribers by the summer of 2015. In the same year, at the interactive festival “Vidfest” she was awarded the victory in the “Like for a Newcomer” category, and at the VIDEOFAN festival the couple “Maryana Ro - Ivangai” was recognized as the cutest. Fans never tired of wondering whether the young people had a sincere relationship, or whether it was a commercial PR stunt.
Maryana Ro with her boyfriend in Tokyo
Soon Ivan took Maryana from Japan to Moscow. The parents did not want to let their minor daughter go to the capital alone, so the couple had to resort to deception and justify the purpose of the trip by filming a video. As a result, the girl never returned home and stayed with her lover in Moscow. They rented an apartment and began to live together. Her mother and older brother came to her and tried to persuade her to return home.
Maryana flatly refused to leave her lover, although serious disagreements had begun in the couple’s life by that time. Ivan tried to break off the relationship and left home, but upon learning that the girl had swallowed pills, he returned. At the end of 2016, the couple finally broke up. But Maryana never returned home; she remained in Moscow.
At the beginning of 2017, the film “Hack the Bloggers” was released, in which the main roles were played by Ivangay and Maryana Ro, as well as their friend, video blogger Sasha Spielberg. According to the plot, their computers were hacked by a virus that “dragged” the guys into digital world. However, the film was completely trashed by critics. In October 2017, the famous rapper Face admitted in an interview with Yuri Dudu that he was in love with Maryana Ro. On October 7, he very sweetly congratulated her on her birthday on his Instagram.
Maryana Ro now
By the beginning of 2018, the number of Maryana Ro’s subscribers approached six million. This brings her considerable income. According to rough estimates, in the second half of 2017 Maryana earned approximately 8.5 million rubles, and in total for 2017 - 25 million. She earns money not only from views, but also from advertising and sponsors. In her videos you can often see hidden advertisements for cosmetics, perfumes, clothes and other things that interest young people. At the same time, analysts from the Russian Blogger Research Agency note a drop in Ro’s income: in mid-2017 she was in 3rd place among the richest bloggers, and by the beginning of 2018 she dropped to 10th. This may be due to the fact that the girl was taking a break from YouTube. 
Hello everyone, readers of our magazine. We've been waiting for new videos in the media library section. If yes, then I’m posting a new video - Maryana Ro answers questions from her viewers and fans. The video is called ASKRO. Ask – translated from English – to ask, and RO is Maryana’s nickname. Thus, the name ASKRO can be translated as - ask Maryana.
Below you can watch the video itself, if, of course, you haven’t seen it yet. Maryana, quite funny, answers questions asked by viewers and fans.
Video clip
So, watch the ASKRO video, and of course, don’t forget to comment.
According to our tradition, which has developed over half a year of the magazine’s existence, I publish some Interesting Facts about Ro. I think you don't know some of these facts.:
- I think you are aware that Maryana Ro is one of the most popular video bloggers in the Russian-speaking space. But few people know that every day her channel is viewed approximately 300,000 times. How do you like this figure? I think many of today’s bloggers would completely like to have such a figure on their channel;
- How many subscribers do you think these three hundred thousand views bring to her channel every day? This number of views brings Maryana Ro, neither more nor less, approximately five thousand people;
- Maryana Ro’s channel is connected to the VSP Group partner media network; every month Maryana pays approximately 20% of her income to this partner media network.
TheKateClapp, 5,569,698 subscribers
24-year-old Ekaterina Trofimova from Moscow has been blogging about her toys, cat, sneaker collection, travel and weight loss for 7 years. The reasons why regular ten-minute streams of consciousness receive a million views are the dynamic editing using multi-colored stickers and Internet memes and, of course, the attractiveness of the blogger herself.
Katya began mastering YouTube in 2008 with the creation of the FoggyDisaster channel. There you can also find a video from seven years ago, where 13-year-old Katya with purple bangs is fooling around in front of the camera with her friends. Later the girl entered the Institute contemporary art to the directing department. Disappointed in this education and taking away the documents, Katya began recording full-length videos under the pseudonym Klap.
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Masha Wei
MWaytv, 3,690,547 subscribers
In the past, Katya Klap’s assistant, who decided to set off on her own. Like other girls in our review, Maria talks about everything that happens in her life. However, the stated theme of the channel is beauty. So Maria’s channel opens with a video review of false eyelashes from April 15, 2012 - at that time Masha Kerimova from Tambov was 19 years old, and she studied at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.
By the way, the beautiful Masha became the heroine of the cover summer number Cosmopolitan Beauty magazine.
Sasha Spielberg
SaySasha, 4,992,736 subscribers
The 19-year-old video blogger and now singer seemed to have stepped out of the program “Under 16 and Over.” Sasha (real name Balkovskaya) calls her viewers guys and talks about her favorite cosmetics, “really cool” purchases, funny slippers, her secrets (for example, Sasha didn’t tell anyone that she shakes her head when “negative thoughts” creep in).
Sasha’s manager is her father Alexander Balkovsky, co-owner of the Z-Agency studio, which deals with advertising and promotion on social networks and YouTube. Her father’s enthusiasm and, of course, talent brought Sasha all the way to the State Duma, where the girl recently gave a speech on the interaction between politics and youth. True, Sasha’s triumph was overshadowed by a scandal involving her father. A journalist from the American holding Bloomberg asked Sasha a question about where she studied. Alexander Balkovsky considered the question stupid. The journalist, in turn, said that he had enough experience to determine what questions to ask. Sasha's father reacted sharply to this. “I will teach you because I am older, richer and smarter!” - said the man.
But let's return to Sasha. The girl started her channel in 2010, when she was only 12 years old, but the oldest video on the channel now dates back to 2012 - it’s a barter video with the American Eagle brand. With the growth of popularity on the Internet, Sasha began to receive more and more offers for advertising in her videos, and now, according to the girl’s father, his daughter earns more than a million rubles a month.
Ivangai
EeOneGuy, 11,659,009 subscribers
21-year-old Vanya Rudskoy from the Ukrainian village of Alexandria accomplished the impossible. Having independently mastered the Russian language and working with video, in three years he collected 10 million subscribers on his channel. Ivan started with let's plays (played Minecraft) and game reviews, but his fame was brought to him by videos in which he puts wasabi in his nostrils, shaves his head, shows unsuccessful tricks, wraps himself in tape and, of course, jokes about himself all this time (witty, By the way). Ivangay’s points were also enhanced by his affair with blogger Maryana Ro (Rozhkova), with whom the young man broke up after filming the film “Hack the Bloggers.” The film, by the way, failed miserably at the box office.
One of the first videos on the channel where Ivan appears in person is a review of a goat simulator. Ahead of Vanya was his school graduation, moving to Moscow, studying in Japan and the recognition of Ivan Urgant himself, who parodies Ivangay in his show.
Maryana Ro
MRilakkuma, 5,053,442 subscribers
18-year-old Maryana Rozhkova was born in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but grew up in Japan, where she moved with her family. In Japan, 14-year-old Maryana started blogging, talking about her favorite TV series, school, her quirks and teenage quirks. But real glory caught up with Maryana after a virtual acquaintance with Ivangay, which grew into a real romance.
Maxim Golopolosov
AdamThomasMoran, 8,232,903 subscribers
For his blog, Muscovite Maxim Golopolosov, a trained chef and former courier, chose the format of a review of funny videos from the Internet, which he spied from the American blogger Ray William Johnson. Maxim shot his first videos 7 years ago with the help of a friend on someone else’s camera, but all the technical shortcomings were compensated for by the charisma of the presenter, the cosmic amount of swearing and, of course, funny videos that immediately scattered into memes. The first episode of the show +100500 (with very bad sound) gave the RuNet a joke about a cook and, of course, the St. Petersburg showdown that has already become a legend. Since then, the tunnels in the ears of 27-year-old Golopolosov have become wider, his beard has become thicker, and his hair has become shorter.